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Project Support
YPF works closely with the National Park Service to identify Yellowstone's immediate needs and long-term funding challenges. To help accomplish this mission, we fund projects under six distinct initiatives. By investing in these projects and initiatives, your support can preserve an extraordinary Yellowstone that lasts forever.Learn More

1872 Society
Join this very special group by supporting the Yellowstone Park Foundation's annual fund at a giving level of $1,000 or more. Learn More

Planned Giving
Learn about the many options for leaving a legacy for Yellowstone through planned giving. Learn More

Other Ways to Help
There are many other ways that you can help support Yellowstone National Park. These include: Monthly Giving, Wildlife Adoptions, Employer Matching Gifts, Gifts of Securities, Yellowstone Visa Card, Yellowstone License Plate, My Yellowstone T-shirt, and AmazonSmile.Learn more

Corporate Partnerships
We are sincerely thankful to all the members of the corporate community who have invested in the future of Yellowstone National Park. Learn more about our incredible corporate partners or how your company can become a corporate partner to the Yellowstone Park Foundation and Yellowstone National Park.Learn more

Gateway Businesses for the Park
The Gateway Businesses for the Park Program is designed to encourage businesses to be stewards of the Park, while also being part of a network of other like-minded businesses in the greater Yellowstone region. . Learn more

Sponsor a Bear Box

Preventing bears from obtaining human foods is one of the top priorities of Yellowstone's wildlife managers. Bears that gain access to human food eventually become more aggressive toward humans, and may need to be removed from the population.

Fortunately, there is a solution. The use of large, bear-proof storage containers, or "bear boxes" is a proven method to prevent bears from becoming conditioned to human foods. However, less than 25% of the campsites in roadside campgrounds — the most likely place for a Yellowstone bear to obtain food — currently have bear boxes for safe food storage.

You can help make the Park safer for visitors and bears! Now, the Yellowstone Park Foundation is offering individuals and groups a unique opportunity to Sponsor a Bear Box.

Gifts of any amount toward this important effort are greatly needed and
sincerely appreciated. When you make any size contribution toward the
purchase of a bear box, you will receive all the great benefits of being a Friend of Yellowstone.
Plus, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that you are playing a
direct role in protecting Yellowstone's magnificent bears.

Crowdfunding for Bear Boxes

To jump start this effort, YPF has started its first-ever crowdfunding campaign to raise money for bear boxes in Yellowstone. Crowdfunding is a fun and effective way to get your friends and family involved in a cause you care deeply about.

Simply go to www.crowdrise.com/welovebears, watch the video, and get involved. You can donate directly to YPF’s Bear Box Fund, or create your own fundraiser to sponsor a bear box.

For each $1,500 in contributions, Yellowstone will install a bear box in a Park campground. Thanks to generous donations, we have already raised enough funds for the Park to purchase more than 130 boxes, and the Park needs more than 1,000 to eventually cover all of the roadside campsites.

Right: Members of the Yellowstone Youth Conservation Corps, a YPF supported program, install a bear box at Tower Fall Campground.

With your $1,500 Bear Box Sponsorship, you will receive:

Your name, or your group's name, engraved on a 4" x 6" plate that is permanently affixed to a bear box in a Yellowstone campground.

The Yellowstone Park Foundation, a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization, works in cooperation with the National Park Service to fund projects and programs that protect, preserve, and enhance the natural and cultural resources and the visitor experience of Yellowstone National Park.